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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22

In a recent issue the Chicago Tribune
laid the tariff question before the Hi
nois farmers in such distinct shape, it
will be a queer thing if there is West
ern granger who reads that article that
will vote for any man who advocates the
protection theory. The Tribune rea-
Soned with the Illinois farmers in about
this way: Suppose the result of high
tariff had been to raise the price of
wheat from go cents to SLIGO per bushel.
the price of corn from 10 cents to 81,
pork and beef from 5 and G cents to 10
cents, and all farm products in the
same proportion, then the West
ern farmers would be juSti-
fed in supporting a high tariff.
And if it had reduced the prices of
manufactured goods and of coal then
the Eastern manufacturers and coal
barons would have been fighting for
tariff reduction. But it didn't do any
of these things. On the contrary, it has
done Just the reverse The high tariff
keeps up the prices of coal and manu-
featured goods, and consequently the
manufacturers and coal barOnS insist on
keeping the tariff up to its present
limit. But it has reduced the price of
wheat. of corn, of pork and beef, and
all agricultural products. Why then
should not the'farmerS of the West give
the same attention to their personal
interests that the Eastern manufacture
erS do? While SelfShness is a weak
ness in human nature, still, paradox
ically speaking, it is its strongest weak
ness. If the high tariff puts money in
the pocket of the manufacturer and the
coal baron, nobody is blaming the man
ufacturer and the coal baron for being
satisfied with the operation of our tariff
laws. If it takes money out of the
pocket of the Western farmer, then
why should anybody blame the Western
farmer for wishing to reduce the tariff?
1t thus becomes a question superior in
importance to party fealty. The Chicago
Tribune is the ableSt Republican news
paper in the West. And it is because
of its ability to see the far-reaching
consequences of proper solution of the
tariff problem that it advises the West
ern farmers to stand together without
regard to their party affiliations i'll the
fight for tariff reform. If the Republi-
cans under the leadership of Mr..
BLAINE insist upon championing the
Pennsylvania idea, then they may just
as well make up their minds to get
along without the aid of the Western
farmers. We have great interests in
this section to protect.and the Pennsyl-
vania idea is not in our line.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
SMITH-KILRAIN.
The English champion" Refuses
to Fight Again.


NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-Richard K. Fox,
the hacker of Jake KilraIn, received the
following dispatch by cable to-day:1 ~.
London Dec 21.-Richark X. Fox, Police
Gazette. New York The Sporting Life has
the following bulletin displayed in its win
dow and it is attracting large crowds: Kill
rain arrived in London last night. He is
in the best of condition and ready and will
ing to fight Smith. His only injury is a
black eye. His hands are all sound. Kill
rain claims the championship of the world
and the Police Gazette belt, which he is pre-
pared to defend against all corners. Smith
refuses to renew the fight and the stakes
must be drawn in accordance with the ref
eree's decision, Kilrain is pronounced the
greatest fighter of modern times. Smiths
hacker awarded him his share of the battle
money Kilrain claims similar treatment
Cable at once instructions. ATKINSON.
Mr.. Fox sent the following reply:
George W. Atkinson, referee Smith-Kilrain
fight, Sporting Life, London: If Smith won't
fight, claim full stakes and championship
of the world for kilrain. viii present our
champion with the entire stakes Smiths
back down must be publicly announced.
RICHARD X. Fox. .
District Attorney-elect Fellows said
to-day that Richard X. Fox has GER
tainly made himself amenable to the
law in his connection with the Smith
Kilrain fight. The law makes it mis-
demeanor for any one to instigate, aid
or encourage prize fight, within or
without the state, and the fact that the
fight took place in France does not
alter the case. 1t is unlikely, however,
that Mr.. Fox will be prosecuted.
LONDON, Dec. 21.-In an interview
to-day Kilrain said he would ignore
Sullivan's challengs till the latter had
fought Mitchell. A notice was posted
in Fleet street that Kilrain claims the
championship. Smith is indignant at
Kilrain's assumption of the title, and
says he is willing to fight Kilrain again
tomorrow. Mr.. Bull, of Windsor, Of
fers to match Kilrain against Sullivan
for $4,000 a side.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
HE WAS "ON,n

was seated. one night, in the opera house
With a beautiful girl by my side
And the house was full and the fame of the
play,
Had been heralded far and wide.
And the audience waited impatiently,
And clapped and stamped their feet
All eager to see the curtain liSe
On this great dramatic treat,
Well the curtain rose ana the play went on
And the interest never Jagged,
From the time the hero fell into the tolls
Till the villain forsooth was bagged:
And laughter and tears followed thick and
fast
And the gods yelled with loud acclaim.
Tho they paid but quarter to see the show,
Yet they got there just the same.
Thro' all the excitement | sal in my seat
As unmoved as stick or a stone:
And said to myself, 1.-The poor girl on my
left
Might as well have come here alone"
You may ask Was hat just directly in
front
The source of your i'll concealed woe?'
In reply to your query, most natural, too,
/ answer decidedly Nor
The trouble was this: On my right was
man.
An ill-bred. contemplate bore,
Who gave me the pointers" contained in
the plot
He'd seen the play somewhere before.
M. j. D. ,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
FOUR DOLLARS A MONTH.
What Japanese Artists and Labor.
ers Receive for Their Work.

W. j. Holland in the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The largest manufacturer of porcelain
in KiotO is KinkO-San, who employs
over 800 wOrkmen. These are not, how
ever, cOngregated in one great building
or group of buildings, but are scattered
over large neighbOrhOOd in Awata. |
was permitted this afternoon TO in
spect the various processes in the man
ufacture of the porcelain under the
guidance of the proprietor himself. The
bulk of the ware made is designed for
expectation, and great deal of it goes
to the United States and England.
Most of it is very pretty: and all of it is,
considering the amount OF labor be-
slowed upon it, remarkably cheap.
| was at some pains to ascertain the
price paid for labor in the clOiSsOne and
porcelain factories. The work is done
by the piece. and good turner in a
pottery establishment. or enameler, re-
ceives from 80 to 70 cents per diem. The
best painters earn from IS cents to S1.50
per diem. The wages are graded down.
ward from these maximum figures to
those paid boys and girls employed in
the similar operations, who earn from
10 to Is cents a day. As have remarked
in previous letter, when speaking of
the wages paid farm labOrers i'll Japan,
we of the West. with our exaggerated
ideas of the worth of labor and of the
low purchasing power of our coin, are
apt to form false estimates when con-
templating the scale of prices paid here.
But the truth is that japanese tastes
are simple and wants few; and, while
from rs cents to 81 per diem would be
accounted starvation wages in America,
they in reality represent very just and
liberal compensation in Japan.
Icannot better illustrate what | mean
than by relating an incident which Oc-
Cured in Toxic the other day. A friend
of mine was met and accOsted by
Swed e,whO insisted upon talking with
him.
"What are you doing here?" asked
my friend.
Il am working for Japenese who is
in the iron business"
what are you getting?'
''FOur dollars month";
''Four dollars month"; Why, man,
that will not keep soul and body to-
gether.''
''Oh. yes, but it will. / have good
boarding house, and get all the meat
and fish and bread l want and only pay
IS a month";
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
CHANGED HIS MIND.
Gilmore Suddenly Finds Out He
Cannot Meet Gleason.

On the night of the ClOw-GlOver con-
test at the Washington rink Charlie
Gleason offered to meet Harry Gilmore,
and a purse of $3.50 was raised by some
club men to be given the winner. Gil
more at first refused to accept, but in
the GLOBE of Dee. published card to
the effect that as his fight with Meyer
was off he would meet Gleason for the
purse. A day or two after that he
signed contract for meeting, speci-
flying that it should be to finish, the
winner to receive $500, the loser $50;
both to fight ten rounds or receive moth
ing; he to furnish the gloves. Accord
ingly twenty-five or thirty of the blooded
sports put down their names for SO
each, and Gleason went into training.
The event was to take place this after
noon, it was understood, but the place
was kept a secret. At the eleventh hour,
however, Gilmore changed his mind,
and sends the GLOBE the following
letter in which he goes back on match
of his own making:
1t is a well known fact that Gleason and
were matched to fight in private for purse.
Now my hackers refuse to let the fight go on
under the present arrangements, for the fol
lowing reasons viz: The date and place of
our fight was to be secret, but the manage
ment have chosen to tell so many that now
every one from the authorities down to the
boot-blacks in the street knew when and
where it was to take place. have match with
John H. Clark, of Philadelphia, at the The
alter Comique on Friday the 23d. and fight
with Meyer before Jan. 90 for which money
is posted. Another thing, intend to make
Minneapolis my home in the future, so in
view of these facts my hackers will not let
me run the risk of arrest and possible implls-
onment which would stop my training for
my meeting with Meyer, which fighting with
Gleason under these conditions would in
volye In order that Gleason may not be
disappointed, however, l will put up purse
of $3.50. Let his admirers, if he has any, do
the same We can then go out of the state
and fight it out in the presence of twenty-five
invited friends. Furthermore, l viii bet him
any amount he can raise on the side that l
can whip him. HARRY GILMORE.
1t seems strange that Gilmore should
not have discovered these objections
to the meeting until so late date, as
the admirers who spent day going
and coming for the privilege of seeing
Meyer knock him out in four rounds at
st. Croix station will hardly be inclined
to repeat the experiment, the match can
be understood as off. In justice to
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
Chins From the Ties.

The Omaha lumber dealers are greatly ex-
asperated over the action of the Omaha
roads in making the rate on lumber from Chi
cago to Omaha 16 cents, when the rate from
Chicago to Kansas City is but 1919 cents.
They say they will not stand such discrimi-
nation and will bring the matter before the
interstate commission if Omaha rates are
not made the same as Kansas City.
The Omaha is issuing new lumber tariffs
running reduced rates on the Nebraska and
Sioux City divisions on the Fremont, Elk
horn & Missouri Valley, the Missouri Pacific
and the Burlington d Missouri River roads.
Hugh Sutherland, president of the Winni-
peg & Hudson Bay road, arrived in St. Paul
yesterday morning from the East.
Owing to the snow and wind storm many
of the trains on the different roads were a
little behind time yesterday.
A. G. Postlethwaite, of the st. Paul &
Northern Pacific, left for Chicago last night.
W. H. Coleman, paymaster of the st: Paul
& Duluth, returned yesterday from Duluth.
L. s. Allen, travelling passenger agent of
the Baltimore & Ohio, is in st. Paul.
After January the Milwaukee & st. Paul
will ship flour at its actual weight.
General Passenger Agent Fee is expected
home to-day from st. Louis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
A DESPERATE FIGHT.
1t Took Place Betweed An Indian
and a Frenchman AT Fort
Pierre

Pierre.
PIERRE, Dec. pa desperate pIiZe
fight occurred at Fort Pierre on the
Sioux reservation this morning. 1t was
no hippOdrome, but fight for blood.
The contestants were Barney Travesty,
a half-breed Indian, weighing 100
pounds, and Napoleon Welcome, a
Frenchman, weighing $50 pounds. The
fight grew out of a feud between the
two men. To-day Travesty came to
Fort Pierre, and meeting Welcome, at
once challenged him to fight it out, Mar
quiS of Queensberry rules. Welcome
accepted. The weather was piercing
cold and the snow lay four inches deep.
Capt. Horn acted as referee, and George
Jackson, celebrated cowboy, as sec
Ond for Travesty, and Joe Weir for
Welcome. Welcome let go his left,
catching TraveSty on one of his peppers
the compliment with an upper cut, gain
ing the first knock down. A clinch fol-
lowed, and some terrific short arm work
was INDUCED in, after which TraveSty
emerged looking like ch0pping block.
Round two opened with TrayeSty on
his mettle. He first visited Welcomes
eyes, putting the shutters up, then he
reached the Frenchman's mouth, break
ing seven teeth and knocking his jaw
out of place.
Round Three-Both men came up
groggy, but went to work at once. 1t
was give and take on both sides, TRAY
esty getting in Ottener, but Welcomes
blows having the most strain. Travesty
was knocked down three times, but re-
spOnded gamely and closed both of Wei
comes eyes.
The referee refused to stop the fight,
and when the Indian police wished to
interfere, a revolver was pulled and the
red men deemed it wise to allow the
fight to proceed. The men fought ON
for fully one hour and dropped from
mere exhaustion. 1t was useless to enr
deayor to rally them. the fight was
called draw. Travesty had both eyes
closed, lips and nose cut and was i'm
able to stand. Welcome was also un
SciOuS and lost much blood. 80
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
SUFFERING IN KANSAS.

Reports of the most alarming charae-
ter come from Kansas regarding the
suffering caesed by cold and hunger
among the Feople living in isolated
counties. Partially the distress is due
to the railroad companies, who, enter
ing into a combination, have forced coal
to such price as to actually occasion
a fuel famine in some localities.
Another reason is the shOrt-sighted-
ness or perhaps criminal carelessness of
Southwestern immigration agents, who
have induced, by their glowing pictures
of the advantages incident to life in
Kansas, a large number of immigrants
to settle in the country and have per-
United, even induced them to come at a
time when immigration had practically
ceased for the season in other sections
of the country. Many of these immi-
grants, relying upon the assurances of
the agents, went into the back counties
of Kansas late in the fall, ignorant of
the climate and their surroundings and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
A Queer Sup erstitiOn.
Philadelphia Call.

Philadelphia Call.
Il saw curiosity the other day of a
kind that is rare, Think said an old
gentleman in the course of couversa-
ton with Call man. ut lay pressed
between two leaves of her prayer book,
and as she rendered the sacred volume
to me. that | might join in the devo-
lions of her church, it tiuttered
slowly and noiselessly to the floor.
i stopped and picked it up, and
there, written by Natures own hand,
across the SAGE of preserved leaf, were
the names Paul and Laura. Curious to
know how such a thing could happen,
and trusting to my gray hair to excuse
the curiosity, | asked how it had been
done, when she blushingly said: we
cut the letters from paper and pasted
them firmly upon the leaf, thus exclud-
ing the light and producing trace of
the names. He is in the navy, lieuten-
ant, and we are shortly to be married.
| am superstitious, and would be very
loath to lose this leaf out of my life.' :"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
TROUSERS AND TOP COATS.

Pants will be much worn this winter.
Nast years eOil City Blizzard.
1t is very cold day when the Sum-
mer travelling ulster gets left-at the
sign of the three balls.-BOston Post.
Overcoats this winter will be lined
with checks-that is some of them will.
Merchant Traveller,
Overcoats will be shorter the coming
Winter than last, to harmonize with
their wearers' account prObably.-Pitts-
burg Chronicle-Telegraph,
Now is the cheerful time when man
plunges into his last winters Overcoat,
some sharp morning, only to find four
buttons irretrievably gOne.-BurlingtOn
Free Press.
"Overcoats will be shorter the coming
Winter than last" Many young men
and husbands who spent their first
summer at the seashore this season
will also be ''shOrter" the coming win
ter than last.-Norristown Herald.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
Searching and Suggest We.

Sank Rapids Free Press.
The presidents message is one of the
most searching, suggestive and well
considered documents that was ever
presented to the national congress and
to the people of the United States. AS
public document of the kind it is rea-
sonably brief, concise and compact of
the wisdom of good, strong common
sense. 1t strikes home to the main
points of national interest with clear
nj SIS of vision and statesman-like vigor,
that shows the president is master of
the situation. In matter and style it
has few. if any superiOrs that have pro-
ceeded from Mr.. Cleyeland's predeces-
SOrS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
Not a Coward.
Carthage, Mo-, Democrat.

Carthage, Mo-, Democrat.
No matter what the Republicans say
of Cleveland, they cannot call him a
coward. The recent message is spe-
cies of political bravery which is unpre-
cedented. He has raised his voice
against the death-dealing mOnOpolies
and the giant corporations in behalf of
American freemen. that will be caught
up by the rank and file and shouted
again and again, until it resounds on
every hilltop and through every val
ley in this beautiful land of ours.
Cleveland and reform will be the watch
word in 1888, and it will become so aug
mented ere the campaign ends that the
feeble death knell of the Blaine Repub-
lican-high-p rotective-surplus squander-
ing-monopoly-e demagogues
will pale into insignificance compared
with it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
Scraps OF Sport.

Eddie F. Shields challenges Dannie Need
ham to fight him an eight round glove con-
test to take place at the Theater Comique
Minneapolis Dec. 81. Shields has posted a
forfeit of S25 with James Donovan, of the
Olympic theater.
Joe Pritchard, of st. Louis, has been in
Milwaukee trying to get the Cream City to
join the American association. Manager
Hart. however, says the Western association
is good enough for him.
A telegram was yesterday received from
Paddy Ryan that he would sign the articles
forwarded by Cardiff for meeting Jan. %.
John Donaldson has received from Richard
K. Fox silk scarf and badge in which a
portrait of Kilrain and his colors are woven.
Sam Morton Is trying to secure Catcher
Ringo for the Chicago Western association
Climb
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
FUNNY FANCIES.

When the sardine gets caught he very
soon finds himself in bOX.-LOwell
Courier.
The only fish which can be warranted
not to smell must be smelts.-New
Haven News.
Eyes" said the eel, she threw me a
nice bait, but after l took it he skinned
me. boston Courier.
After the first good frost the fish lie
will get much-needed rest for five
months.-Rahway Advocate.
The Ohio river is so low that the fish
often swim ten miles to a Water-tank
before they can wet their whistles.-Ar
cola Record.
Fish should be weighed in their own
scales. The catch weight, that fixed by
the man who catches the fish, is never
correct.-New Orleans Picayune.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
Disturbed Freight Rates.

CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-The Western
freight rates are still in disturbed
condition, Notwithstanding the heavy
reductions made by agreement yester-
day. One of the Chicago roads, through
mistake, quoted the tariff on cotton
lower than had been agreed upon, and
in spite of the efforts of the commits
sioner to explain, all of the competing
lines met the rate, and are holding to it
without any prospect of putting the
rates back. All of the managers be-
lieve the situation is so critical that a
war of rates is certainty before the
winter is over,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
Tommy's Backer in Favor Of
a Mill Of Twenty Rounds
in a Hall,
And Wants to Draw the For
felt Money--Gilmore's
Back Down.
One Of the Most Desperate
Battles on Record Fought
at Pierre, Dak.,
Contradictory Reports About
the Smith-Kilpain Contest
Sporting Notes.

Joe Kray, who was Tommy Warren's
back er in his fight to finish with Patsy
O'Leary, Dec. 5, came to the GLOBE
office where the forfeit of $500 side was
deposited and wanted to draw the
stakes. He said that O'Leary's hackers
had agreed to this, as 1t
was impossible to get place where a
fight to finish could be had at this sea-
son of the year.. 1t was proposed to
make the fight twenty-round contest,
and have it in some hall in one of the
Twin Cities. Warren and O'Leary are
both said to be in Chicago.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22

stand that they were removed by their
parents. The disappearance of a
female child the other day aroused Sus-
piciOn, and police investigation was
instituted. The police yesterday dis
covered the body of the missing child
buried under the floor of a cow-stall. A
further search of the premises led to
the discovery of the remains of ten in
fants disposed of in similar manner.
The baby farmer is now charged with
the murder of all these unfortunate
children.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
A Russian Baby Farm.

A horrible discovery was made here
the other day in one of the suburbs. A
middle-aged woman, owning her home
and plot of ground, has for the last
few years taken charge of number of
ilIegitimate infants, writes the Odessa
correspondent of the London Daily
News. From time to time many of
these young children disappeared, the
woman's neighbors being led to under
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
But She Won't.
ar Post Express.

Rochester Post Express.
The frugal householder who has a
sleepy servant would do we'll to lay him
in an Edison monograph and place it in
position so that a turn of the crank
these cold mornings would shoot out in
small caps: "CoME, MARY, THE LITTLR
BIRDS ARE SINGING THEIR EARLY
MORNING lay" to be followed by this
in caps: s'MARY-WILL-Y
UP-AND-LIGHT- THE-FIRE""
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22

scenery and the orchestra of the Ma
tiOnal Opera company.
The receipts for the four perform
ances amounted to $1,000.
NEWTON BEERS company in ''Alone
in London" opens at the Grand tonight
and will play the remainder of the week.
Sale OF seats for ''Gypsy Baron" be
gins OF the Grand box Office this morn
ing. The engagement opens with a
Christmas matinee Monday afternoon.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
To Be a - Hummer"

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 21.-The Chicago &
Alton have arranged to put on fast
train, to be known as the Hummer"
the train to leave Chicago at p. M, ar
day, thus saving five hours. The train
leaves Kansas City at 4:45 p. M, and ar
riveS at Chicago next day at a. m. The
schedule goes into effect Christmas
morning.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
A Remarkable Run.

Boston, Dec. 21.-In the match at
three-ball carom billiards between Har-
vey McKenna, of Detroit, and Harry
Eames, of this city, which began to-
night, McKenna ran 2,497, and left the
balls in as good position for resuming
play tomorrow night as when he began
the run. This is the most remarkable
run on record, the previous best score
being Vignaux's of l ,531, made at Paris.